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In this notebook, we will set up parameters in the seurat workflow [normalization –> reduction –> clustering] for one Wilms tumor sample (SCPCS000169) of the Wilms Tumor dataset (SCPCP000006).
This correspond to the step 2 of the proposed analysis: clustering of cells across a set of parameters for few samples
Load required packages in the following chunk, if needed. Do not
install packages here; only load them with the library()
function.
library(SingleCellExperiment)
library(Seurat) # to use Seurat workflow
library(tidyr)
library(dplyr)
library(DT) # for table visualization
library(ggplot2) # for visualization
library(patchwork) # for visualization
library(ggplotify)
library(SCpubr) # for visualization
library(viridis) # for visualization - colors
library(edgeR) # For pseudobulk based differential expression (DE) analysis
library(DElegate) # for pseudobulk based DE analysis and identification of marker genes
library(Azimuth) # For label transfer
library(msigdbr) # for gene set enrichment analysis or pathway enrichment
library(clusterProfiler)
library(data.table)We store in a config list names “cfg” parameters used all along the analysis to filter for p-value, log fold change, percentage of expression, etc.
# The base path for the OpenScPCA repository, found by its (hidden) .git directory
repository_base <- rprojroot::find_root(rprojroot::is_git_root)
# The current data directory, found within the repository base directory
data_dir <- file.path(repository_base, "data", "2024-07-08", "SCPCP000006")
# The path to this module
module_base <- file.path(repository_base, "analyses", "cell-type-wilms-tumor-06")For this analysis, we worked with the _processed.rds data. We builded a Seurat object based on the counts data and re-perform the analysis [normalization –> reduction –> clustering] following the Seurat workflow.
We transferred meta.data to keep:
[x] QC data computed by the DataLab
[x] annotation data computed by the DataLab
[x] raw annotation and gene_symbol conversion
# input
# use download-data.py to download the data
# get all files in the data directory
filelist <- list.files(data_dir, full.names = TRUE)
# select the 40 Wilms tumor single nucleus folders only
filelist <- filelist[! grepl(".tsv", filelist)]
# output
## html report for each of the Wilms tumor sample will be saved in
path_to_report <- file.path(module_base, "01-clustering")
## some plots from the report will be saved in
path_to_plot <- file.path(module_base, "/plots")
## after final decision on the clustering strategy, processed RDS files will be saved in
path_to_result <- file.path(module_base, "/results")## to be modified when rendered
i = 2
filedir <- filelist[i]
sample <- gsub(paste0(data_dir, "/"), "", filedir)
metadata <- read.table(file.path(data_dir, "/single_cell_metadata.tsv"), sep = "\t", header=TRUE)
metadata[metadata$scpca_sample_id == sample,]| scpca_project_id | scpca_sample_id | scpca_library_id | diagnosis | subdiagnosis | disease_timing | age_at_diagnosis | sex | tissue_location | participant_id | submitter | submitter_id | organism | development_stage_ontology_term_id | sex_ontology_term_id | organism_ontology_id | self_reported_ethnicity_ontology_term_id | disease_ontology_term_id | tissue_ontology_term_id | metastasis | relapse_status | treatment | vital_status | seq_unit | technology | total_reads | mapped_reads | sample_cell_count_estimate | unfiltered_cells | filtered_cell_count | processed_cells | has_cellhash | includes_anndata | is_cell_line | is_multiplexed | is_xenograft | pi_name | project_title | genome_assembly | mapping_index | alevin_fry_version | salmon_version | transcript_type | droplet_filtering_method | cell_filtering_method | prob_compromised_cutoff | min_gene_cutoff | normalization_method | date_processed | workflow | workflow_version | workflow_commit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | SCPCP000006 | SCPCS000169 | SCPCL000206 | Wilms tumor | Favorable | Initial diagnosis | 2 | M | Kidney | SJWLM059660 | murphy_chen | SJWLM059660_D1 | Homo sapiens | HsapDv:0000096 | PATO:0000384 | NCBITaxon:9606 | unknown | MONDO:0006058 | UBERON:0002113 | NA | No | Upfront resection | Alive | nucleus | 10Xv3.1 | 139450314 | 28626608 | 7102 | 66522 | 7102 | 6394 | False | True | False | False | False | murphy_chen | Single nuclear RNA-seq and spatial transcriptomic analysis of anaplastic and favorable histology Wilms tumor | Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.104 | Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.104.spliced_intron.txome | 0.7.0 | 1.5.2 | [total, spliced] | emptyDropsCellRanger | miQC | 0.75 | 200 | deconvolution | 2024-03-18T19:44:31+0000 | https://github.com/AlexsLemonade/scpca-nf | v0.8.0 | 8bef82d853d19e5aeddd75401aa54cf8bfbced13 |
Here we have a sample of favorable histology, untreated. Few thoughs:
We thus do not expect anaplasia-associated patterns (TP53 as an example) to be major driver here.
We do not expect high immune infiltration (induced by chemotherapy).
We do not expect chemotherapy induced DNA damages.
We perform the following analysis to assess for the quality of clustering:
[1] We perform some quality check to assess any QC-induced clustering (nFeature, nCount, percent.mito).
[2] We add cell cycle information, as we know that in a specific cell cycle state, the transcriptional program is mostly/exclusively related to cell cycle genes and the identity of cells is difficult to determine. We expect these cells to cluster together in a cluster of proliferating cells.
[3] We look at specific marker genes that we reported in the table marker.sets/CellType_metadata.csv to check the relevance of the clustering.
[4] We look at specific pathways that we reported in the table marker.sets/Pathways_metadata.csv to check the relevance of the clustering.
[5] We run DElegate::FindAllMarkers2 to find markers of the different clusters and manually check if they do make sense. DElegate::FindAllMarkers2 is an improved version of Seurat::FindAllMarkers based on pseudobulk differential expression method.
[6] We perform enrichment analysis of marker genes for each seurat clusters. We defined all the genes from the seurat object as the universe and used the MSigDB gene sets.
[7] We plot pca/umap reduction grouping with available annotations (singler_, cellassign_). We expect at least immune cells to be correctly label and fall into a few set of clusters.
[8] We run label transfer (Azimuth) to transfer annotation from the fetal kidney atlas human reference. We plot pca/umap reduction grouping with latest labels. We expect it to be the most representative of the cell types in the sample.
Please note: to keep the notebook as straight as possible, we decided to show the analysis for the selected set of parameters:
Note: Other parameters have been previously tested, but we would like to show in the following report that the one selected is performing good.
# convert to seurat
srat <- CreateSeuratObject(counts = counts(sce),
assay = "RNA",
project = sample
)
# convert colData and rowData to data.frame for use in the Seurat object
cell_metadata <- as.data.frame(colData(sce))
row_metadata <- as.data.frame(rowData(sce))
# add cell metadata (colData) from SingleCellExperiment to Seurat
srat@meta.data <- cell_metadata
# add row metadata (rowData) from SingleCellExperiment to Seurat
srat[["RNA"]]@meta.data <- row_metadata
# add metadata from SingleCellExperiment to Seurat
srat@misc <- metadata(sce)
# Normalization
options(future.globals.maxSize= 891289600)
srat <- SCTransform(srat, verbose = F, conserve.memory = TRUE)
# dimensionality reduction
srat <- RunPCA(srat, verbose = F)
srat <- RunUMAP(srat, dims = 1:50, verbose = F)## Warning: The default method for RunUMAP has changed from calling Python UMAP via reticulate to the R-native UWOT using the cosine metric
## To use Python UMAP via reticulate, set umap.method to 'umap-learn' and metric to 'correlation'
## This message will be shown once per session
# clustering
srat <- FindNeighbors(srat, dims = 1:50, verbose = F)
srat <- FindClusters(srat, verbose = T)## Modularity Optimizer version 1.3.0 by Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck
##
## Number of nodes: 6394
## Number of edges: 267534
##
## Running Louvain algorithm...
## Maximum modularity in 10 random starts: 0.8008
## Number of communities: 15
## Elapsed time: 0 seconds
d2 <- SCpubr::do_DimPlot(srat, reduction="umap", group.by = "seurat_clusters", label = TRUE) + ggtitle("Seurat Cluster - umap")
d1 <- SCpubr::do_DimPlot(srat, reduction="pca", group.by = "seurat_clusters", label = TRUE) + ggtitle("Seurat Cluster - pca")
v <- SCpubr::do_ViolinPlot(srat, features = c( "subsets_mito_percent"), ncol = 1, group.by = "seurat_clusters", legend.position = "none")
d1 + d2 + v + plot_layout(ncol = 3, widths = c(2,2,4))The umap clustering is expected for a triphasic Wilms tumor sample. The 3 main clusters might be:
The two small clusters C11 and C12 might be immune and endothelial cells.
To be checked in the following analysis!
s.genes <- srat@assays$RNA@meta.data$gene_ids[srat@assays$RNA@meta.data$gene_symbol %in% cc.genes$s.genes]
g2m.genes <- srat@assays$RNA@meta.data$gene_ids[srat@assays$RNA@meta.data$gene_symbol %in% cc.genes$g2m.genes]
srat <- CellCycleScoring(srat, s.features = s.genes, g2m.features = g2m.genes, set.ident = FALSE)d2 <- SCpubr::do_DimPlot(srat, reduction="umap", group.by = "Phase", label = TRUE) + ggtitle("Phase - umap")
d1 <- SCpubr::do_DimPlot(srat, reduction="umap", group.by = "seurat_clusters", label = TRUE) + ggtitle("Seurat Cluster - umap")
b <- SCpubr::do_BarPlot(sample = srat,
group.by = "Phase",
split.by = "seurat_clusters",
position = "fill",
font.size = 10,
legend.ncol = 3) +
ggtitle("% cells")+
xlab(file)
d1 + d2 + b + plot_layout(ncol = 3, widths = c(2,2,4)) SCpubr::do_ViolinPlot(srat, features = c("S.Score", "G2M.Score"), ncol = 2, group.by = "seurat_clusters", legend.position = "none") C1 might be composed of cycling cells, in higher proportion than the other clusters.
Here, we open the table of marker genes marker-sets/CellType_metadata.csv.
# open the set of reference marker genes
CellType_metadata <- read.table("marker-sets/CellType_metadata.csv", header = TRUE, sep = ",")
DT::datatable(CellType_metadata, caption = ("CellType_metadata"),
extensions = 'Buttons',
options = list( dom = 'Bfrtip',
buttons = c( 'csv', 'excel'))) SCpubr::do_ViolinPlot(srat, features = rownames(srat)[rownames(srat) %in% (CellType_metadata$ENSEMBL_ID[CellType_metadata$cell_class %in% c("malignant")])] , ncol = 9, group.by = "seurat_clusters", legend.position = "none")
The set of clusters 0-1-3-4-7-9-10-13 is NCAM1+ (ENSG00000149294) which
is a marker of blastema area.
d1 <- SCpubr::do_DimPlot(srat, reduction="umap", group.by = "seurat_clusters", label = TRUE, repel = TRUE) + ggtitle("Seurat Cluster - umap")
d2 <- SCpubr::do_FeaturePlot(srat, features = "ENSG00000149294", pt.size = 0.2) + ggtitle("NCAM1")
v <- SCpubr::do_ViolinPlot(srat, features = "ENSG00000149294", ncol = 1, group.by = "seurat_clusters", legend.position = "none")
d1 + d2 + v + plot_layout(ncol = 3, widths = c(1,1,3))C2-7 is positive for COL6A3 which is a marker of stroma Wilms tumor cells (also normal stroma)
d1 <- SCpubr::do_DimPlot(srat, reduction="umap", group.by = "seurat_clusters", label = TRUE, repel = TRUE) + ggtitle("Seurat Cluster - umap")
d2 <- SCpubr::do_FeaturePlot(srat, features = "ENSG00000163359", pt.size = 0.2) + ggtitle("COL6A3")
v <- SCpubr::do_ViolinPlot(srat, features = "ENSG00000163359", ncol = 1, group.by = "seurat_clusters", legend.position = "none")
d1 + d2 + v + plot_layout(ncol = 3, widths = c(1,1,3)) SCpubr::do_ViolinPlot(srat, features = rownames(srat)[rownames(srat) %in% (CellType_metadata$ENSEMBL_ID[CellType_metadata$cell_class %in% c("immune")])]
, ncol = 6, group.by = "seurat_clusters", legend.position = "none") C11 is PTPRC+ (ENSG00000081237) and must be a cluster of immune cells. Wilms tumor are generally cold tumor, especially untreated Wilms tumor. According to the clinical data, the present sample is untreated (treatment = upfront resection). We do not expect high percentage of immune cells. The size of the cluster would therefore make sense.
d1 <- SCpubr::do_DimPlot(srat, reduction="umap", group.by = "seurat_clusters", label = TRUE, repel = TRUE) + ggtitle("Seurat Cluster - umap")
d2 <- SCpubr::do_FeaturePlot(srat, features = "ENSG00000081237", pt.size = 0.2) + ggtitle("PTPRC = CD45")
v <- SCpubr::do_ViolinPlot(srat, features = "ENSG00000081237", ncol = 1, group.by = "seurat_clusters", legend.position = "none", pt.size = 2)
d1 + d2 + v + plot_layout(ncol = 3, widths = c(1,1,3)) SCpubr::do_ViolinPlot(srat, features = rownames(srat)[rownames(srat) %in% (CellType_metadata$ENSEMBL_ID[! CellType_metadata$cell_class %in% c("immune", "malignant")])]
, ncol = 6, group.by = "seurat_clusters", legend.position = "none") C12 is VWF+ (ENSG00000110799) and must be a cluster of endothelial cells.
d1 <- SCpubr::do_DimPlot(srat, reduction="umap", group.by = "seurat_clusters", label = TRUE, repel = TRUE) + ggtitle("Seurat Cluster - umap")
d2 <- SCpubr::do_FeaturePlot(srat, features = "ENSG00000110799", pt.size = 0.2) + ggtitle("VWF")
v <- SCpubr::do_ViolinPlot(srat, features = "ENSG00000110799", ncol = 1, group.by = "seurat_clusters", legend.position = "none", pt.size = 2)
d1 + d2 + v + plot_layout(ncol = 3, widths = c(1,1,3))Here, we open the table of marker genes marker-sets/Pathway_metadata.csv.
# open the set of reference marker genes
Pathway_metadata <- read.csv("marker-sets/Pathway_metadata.csv", header = TRUE, sep = ",")
DT::datatable(Pathway_metadata, caption = ("CellType_metadata"),
extensions = 'Buttons',
options = list( dom = 'Bfrtip',
buttons = c( 'csv', 'excel')))here we will calculate a TP53 score using AddMduleScore and the genes of the HALLMARK_P53_PATHWAY gene set.
## define genesets
hallmarks <- msigdbr(species = "human", category = "H")
TP53_list = hallmarks %>%
filter(gs_name == "HALLMARK_P53_PATHWAY") %>%
dplyr::distinct(gs_name, gene_symbol, human_ensembl_gene) %>% as.data.frame()
TP53_list <- list(TP53_list$human_ensembl_gene)
srat <- AddModuleScore(srat, features = TP53_list, name = "TP53_score")## Warning: The following features are not present in the object: ENSG00000179593,
## ENSG00000137752, ENSG00000147889, ENSG00000147883, ENSG00000245848,
## ENSG00000137975, ENSG00000284841, ENSG00000276536, ENSG00000206377,
## ENSG00000206478, ENSG00000227231, ENSG00000230128, ENSG00000235030,
## ENSG00000237155, ENSG00000163083, ENSG00000136826, ENSG00000129455,
## ENSG00000128422, ENSG00000177551, ENSG00000206075, ENSG00000175793,
## ENSG00000206297, ENSG00000224212, ENSG00000224748, ENSG00000226173,
## ENSG00000227816, ENSG00000230705, ENSG00000232367, ENSG00000159450,
## ENSG00000125657, not searching for symbol synonyms
d1 <- SCpubr::do_DimPlot(srat, reduction="umap", group.by = "seurat_clusters", label = TRUE, repel = TRUE) + ggtitle("Seurat Cluster - umap")
d2 <- SCpubr::do_FeaturePlot(srat, features = "TP53_score1", pt.size = 0.2) + ggtitle("TP53 score")
v <- SCpubr::do_ViolinPlot(srat, features = "TP53_score1", ncol = 1, group.by = "seurat_clusters", legend.position = "none")
d1 + d2 + v + plot_layout(ncol = 3, widths = c(1,1,3))
“Normal” cells (immune, endothelial) have a slightly higher TP53 score.
I am however not sure how relevant the TP53 score is for Favorable
sample as the one we are analysing here. To be tested on an anaplastic
sample.
here we will calculate a DNA_repair score using AddMduleScore and the genes of the HALLMARK_DNA_REPAIR gene set.
DNA_repair = hallmarks %>%
filter(gs_name == "HALLMARK_DNA_REPAIR") %>%
dplyr::distinct(gs_name, gene_symbol, human_ensembl_gene) %>% as.data.frame()
DNA_repair_list <- list(DNA_repair$human_ensembl_gene)
srat <- AddModuleScore(srat, features = DNA_repair_list, name = "DNA_repair_score")## Warning: The following features are not present in the object: ENSG00000152669,
## ENSG00000284752, ENSG00000288114, ENSG00000206268, ENSG00000206357,
## ENSG00000229363, ENSG00000231044, ENSG00000233801, ENSG00000185527,
## ENSG00000180099, ENSG00000206502, ENSG00000224859, ENSG00000233795,
## ENSG00000235176, ENSG00000235443, ENSG00000236808, ENSG00000236949,
## ENSG00000284832, ENSG00000280627, ENSG00000276463, ENSG00000285339,
## ENSG00000274352, not searching for symbol synonyms
d1 <- SCpubr::do_DimPlot(srat, reduction="umap", group.by = "seurat_clusters", label = TRUE, repel = TRUE) + ggtitle("Seurat Cluster - umap")
d2 <- SCpubr::do_FeaturePlot(srat, features = "DNA_repair_score1", pt.size = 0.2) + ggtitle("DNA_repair score")
v <- SCpubr::do_ViolinPlot(srat, features = "DNA_repair_score1", ncol = 1, group.by = "seurat_clusters", legend.position = "none")
d1 + d2 + v + plot_layout(ncol = 3, widths = c(1,1,3))
I am not sure how relevant the DNA repair score is for Favorable sample
as the one we are analysing here. To be tested on an anaplastic
sample.
## define genesets
c3 <- msigdbr(species = "human", category = "C3", subcategory = "TFT:GTRD")
DROSHA_list = c3 %>%
filter(gs_name == "DROSHA_TARGET_GENES") %>%
dplyr::distinct(gs_name, gene_symbol, human_ensembl_gene) %>% as.data.frame()
DROSHA_list <- list(DROSHA_list$human_ensembl_gene)
srat <- AddModuleScore(srat, features = DROSHA_list, name = "DROSHA_score")## Warning: The following features are not present in the object: ENSG00000107147,
## ENSG00000265134, ENSG00000210164, ENSG00000210100, ENSG00000210156,
## ENSG00000209082, ENSG00000210112, ENSG00000210107, ENSG00000210151,
## ENSG00000210077, ENSG00000248923, ENSG00000232850, ENSG00000274978,
## ENSG00000199568, ENSG00000207205, ENSG00000275538, ENSG00000235374,
## ENSG00000163874, not searching for symbol synonyms
d1 <- SCpubr::do_DimPlot(srat, reduction="umap", group.by = "seurat_clusters", label = TRUE, repel = TRUE) + ggtitle("Seurat Cluster - umap")
d2 <- SCpubr::do_FeaturePlot(srat, features = "DROSHA_score1", pt.size = 0.2) + ggtitle("DROSHA score")
v <- SCpubr::do_ViolinPlot(srat, features = "DROSHA_score1", ncol = 1, group.by = "seurat_clusters", legend.position = "none")
d1 + d2 + v + plot_layout(ncol = 3, widths = c(1,1,3))DICER1_list = c3 %>%
filter(gs_name == "DICER1_TARGET_GENES") %>%
dplyr::distinct(gs_name, gene_symbol, human_ensembl_gene) %>% as.data.frame()
DICER1_list <- list(DICER1_list$human_ensembl_gene)
srat <- AddModuleScore(srat, features = DICER1_list, name = "DICER1_score")## Warning: The following features are not present in the object: ENSG00000278705,
## ENSG00000224157, ENSG00000210049, ENSG00000210100, ENSG00000210156,
## ENSG00000210196, ENSG00000210151, ENSG00000210195, ENSG00000261441,
## ENSG00000222328, ENSG00000202538, ENSG00000199347, not searching for symbol
## synonyms
d1 <- SCpubr::do_DimPlot(srat, reduction="umap", group.by = "seurat_clusters", label = TRUE, repel = TRUE) + ggtitle("Seurat Cluster - umap")
d2 <- SCpubr::do_FeaturePlot(srat, features = "DICER1_score1", pt.size = 0.2) + ggtitle("DICER1 score")
v <- SCpubr::do_ViolinPlot(srat, features = "DICER1_score1", ncol = 1, group.by = "seurat_clusters", legend.position = "none")
d1 + d2 + v + plot_layout(ncol = 3, widths = c(1,1,3))C10 might have a slightly altered DROSHA/DICER1 ratio compared to the other cluster, but this might be due to the fact that C10 is mostly in G2M phase (?).
In addition to the list of known marker genes, we used an unbiased approach to find transcripts that characterized the different clusters. We run DElegate::FindAllMarkers2 to find markers of the different clusters and manually check if they do make sense. DElegate::FindAllMarkers2 is an improved version of Seurat::FindAllMarkers based on pseudobulk differential expression method. Please check the preprint from Chistoph Hafemeister: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.28.534443v1 and tool described here: https://github.com/cancerbits/DElegate
feature_conversion <- srat@assays$RNA@meta.data
de_results <- DElegate::FindAllMarkers2(srat, group_column = "seurat_clusters")
#filter the most relevant markers
s.markers <- de_results[de_results$padj < cfg$padj_thershold & de_results$log_fc > cfg$lfc_threshold & de_results$rate1 > cfg$rate1_threshold,]
# add gene symbol for easiest interpretation of the result
s.markers$gene_ids <- s.markers$feature
s.markers <- left_join(s.markers,feature_conversion, by = c( "gene_ids") )
identical(s.markers$feature, s.markers$gene_ids) # check the quality of the merge, must be true## [1] TRUE
DT::datatable(s.markers, caption = ("marker genes"),
extensions = 'Buttons',
options = list( dom = 'Bfrtip',
buttons = c( 'csv', 'excel')))# Select top 5 genes for heatmap plotting
s.markers <- na.omit(s.markers)
s.markers %>%
group_by(group1) %>%
top_n(n = 5, wt = log_fc) -> top5
# subset for plotting
cells <- WhichCells(srat, downsample = 100)
ss <- subset(srat, cells = cells)
ss <- ScaleData(ss, features = top5$feature)
p1 <- SCpubr::do_DimPlot(srat, reduction="umap", group.by = "seurat_clusters", label = TRUE, repel = TRUE) + ggtitle("Seurat Cluster - umap")
p2 <- DoHeatmap(ss, features = top5$feature, cells = cells, group.by = "seurat_clusters") + NoLegend() +
scale_fill_gradientn(colors = c("#01665e","#35978f",'darkslategray3', "#f7f7f7", "#fee391","#fec44f","#F9AD03"))
p3 <- ggplot(srat@meta.data, aes(seurat_clusters, fill = seurat_clusters)) + geom_bar() + NoLegend()
common_title <- sprintf("Unsupervised clustering %s, %d cells", srat@meta.data$orig.ident[1], ncol(srat))
show((((p1 / p3) + plot_layout(heights = c(3,2)) | p2) ) + plot_layout(widths = c(1, 2)) + plot_layout(heights = c(3,1)) + plot_annotation(title = common_title))DT::datatable(top5[, c(1, 9, 11, 12)], caption = ("top 5 marker genes"),
extensions = 'Buttons',
options = list( dom = 'Bfrtip',
buttons = c( 'csv', 'excel')))The cluster that we found seems to make sense as they can be defined by a few number of specific genes each. I don’t know most of the marker genes found, but few point below that could support the analysis and annotation.
UNC5D (C0, dependency receptor), has been described in cancer and shown to regulate p53-dependent apoptosis (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24691657/). We know that especially in blastema cell, p53 signaling play an important role.
PDCH7 (C6, protocadherin 7) is expressed in human kidney renal tubule (normal kidney epithelium, see https://www.proteinatlas.org/ENSG00000169851-PCDH7/tissue/kidney) and has been associated with oncogenic function in lung cancer (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30409919/, https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2023.1217213/full).
EBF1 (C7, Early B Cell factor 1) has been shown to play a role in kidney development, esp. glomerular, while expressed in stroma progenitor (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6727263/).
ERBB4 (C8, EGF receptor family) is expressed during kidney development of epithelial tubule and uteric bud (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3269924/)
FLT1 (C12, vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1), PCAM and ELMO1 in the top5 of C13 marker genes confirm the identification of endothelial cells (https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.109.213983, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4986701/)
Here we perform enrichment analysis of the marker genes found in the previous section for each Seurat cluster.
We defined as universe/background all the genes expressed in the dataset, meaning the rownames of the Seurat object.
We used three gene sets from MSiGDB:
We used enricher function from clusterProfiler to perform enrichment analysis.
# define background genes = universe for enrichment
background <- row_metadata$gene_ids
## define genesets
c8 <- msigdbr(species = "human", category = "C8")
msigdbr_hallmarks = hallmarks %>% dplyr::distinct(gs_name, ensembl_gene) %>% as.data.frame()
msigdbr_c3 = c3 %>% dplyr::distinct(gs_name, ensembl_gene) %>% as.data.frame()
msigdbr_c8 = c8 %>% dplyr::distinct(gs_name, ensembl_gene) %>% as.data.frame()tmp_H <- NULL
for(i in unique(srat$seurat_clusters)){
signature = s.markers$feature[s.markers$group1 == i]
ego_module <- enricher(gene = signature, universe = background, TERM2GENE = msigdbr_hallmarks)
tmp <- NULL
if(!is.null(ego_module)){
if(dim(ego_module)[1]>0){
b_H <- barplot(ego_module, showCategory = 15, font.size = 20, label_format = 40)
tmp <- b_H$data
tmp$set <- "Hallmarks"
tmp$cluster <- i
}
}
tmp_H <- rbind(tmp_H, tmp)
}
ggplot(tmp_H, aes(Count, ID)) +
geom_bar(stat = "identity", aes(fill=cluster))+
theme_classic()+
geom_text(
aes(label = (paste( "Padj = ", round(p.adjust,2)))),
color = "black",
size = 3,
hjust=1,
position = position_dodge(0.5)
)+
theme(text = element_text(size=14))+
facet_wrap(facets=c("cluster"), ncol = length(unique(tmp_H$cluster)))tmp_H <- NULL
for(i in unique(srat$seurat_clusters)){
signature = s.markers$feature[s.markers$group1 == i]
ego_module <- enricher(gene = signature, universe = background, TERM2GENE = msigdbr_c3)
tmp <- NULL
if(!is.null(ego_module)){
if(dim(ego_module)[1]>0){
b_H <- barplot(ego_module, showCategory = 15, font.size = 20, label_format = 40)
tmp <- b_H$data
tmp$ID <- factor(tmp$ID, levels = c(tmp$ID[order(tmp$Count)]))
tmp$set <- "c8"
tmp$cluster <- i
}
}
tmp_H <- rbind(tmp_H, tmp[1:5,])
}
ggplot(tmp_H, aes(Count, ID)) +
geom_bar(stat = "identity", aes(fill=cluster))+
theme_classic()+
geom_text(
aes(label = (paste( "Padj = ", round(p.adjust,2)))),
color = "black",
size = 3,
hjust=1,
position = position_dodge(0.5)
)+
theme(text = element_text(size=14))+
facet_wrap(facets=c("cluster"), ncol = length(unique(tmp_H$cluster)))## Warning: Removed 21 rows containing missing values or values outside the scale range
## (`geom_bar()`).
## Warning: Removed 21 rows containing missing values or values outside the scale range
## (`geom_text()`).
C5, which is though to be more epithelial, has a specific enrichment pattern of PRMD4, F10 and BCL6B targets. Might be usefull to look more into detail in the lit. if this pattern comes more often accross other samples.
C13 has a specific enrichement of HMGB2 targets, which is though to be associated with “stemness”. Would makes sense with the hypothesis tht C13 is blastema.
tmp_H <- NULL
for(i in unique(srat$seurat_clusters)){
signature = s.markers$feature[s.markers$group1 == i]
ego_module <- enricher(gene = signature, universe = background, TERM2GENE = msigdbr_c8)
tmp <- NULL
if(!is.null(ego_module)){
if(dim(ego_module)[1]>0){
b_H <- barplot(ego_module, showCategory = 15, font.size = 20, label_format = 40)
tmp <- b_H$data
tmp$ID <- factor(tmp$ID, levels = c(tmp$ID[order(tmp$Count)]))
tmp$set <- "c8"
tmp$cluster <- i
}
}
tmp_H <- rbind(tmp_H, tmp[1:5,])
}
ggplot(tmp_H, aes(Count, ID)) +
geom_bar(stat = "identity", aes(fill=cluster))+
theme_classic()+
geom_text(
aes(label = (paste( "Padj = ", round(p.adjust,2)))),
color = "black",
size = 3,
hjust=1,
position = position_dodge(0.5)
)+
theme(text = element_text(size=14))+
facet_wrap(facets=c("cluster"), ncol = length(unique(tmp_H$cluster)))## Warning: Removed 8 rows containing missing values or values outside the scale range
## (`geom_bar()`).
## Warning: Removed 8 rows containing missing values or values outside the scale range
## (`geom_text()`).
C0 is enriched in fetal metanephric cells, which makes sense with the hypothesis that C0 is blastema.
C2, C7 is enriched in adult kidney mesenchymal cells (interstitial, muscle and mesenglial). As the associated pathways are from “adult” reference, this might suggests that the cells are from normal kidney. To be checked with inferCNV profile.
C5, C6, C8 is enriched in adulte differentiated cell types/pathway of the kidney. This could suggest that C5 are from normal kidney. To be checked with inferCNV profile.
C12 is enriched in endothelial gene sets, which fits whith the hypothesis that C12 are endothelial cells.
Here, we quickly checked annotations that are present in the _processed rds object. However, the automated annotation have not been performed using a cancer specific reference or a kidney reference. We do not expect a nice labelling of the cells as the overlap of cell types between the reference and the query dataset is poor. This support the need to do a proper label transfer from the fetal kidney atlas, which is imho the best reference that can be applied to a Wilms tumor query.
d2 <-DimPlot(srat, group.by = "singler_celltype_annotation", reduction = "umap", label = TRUE, repel = TRUE) + NoLegend()
DT::datatable(table(srat$seurat_clusters, srat$singler_celltype_annotation), caption = ("table of SingleR annotation per seurat clusters"),
extensions = 'Buttons',
options = list( dom = 'Bfrtip',
buttons = c( 'csv', 'excel')))d3 <- SCpubr::do_BarPlot(sample = srat,
group.by = "singler_celltype_annotation",
split.by = "seurat_clusters",
position = "fill",
font.size = 10,
legend.ncol = 3) +
ggtitle("% cells")+
xlab(file)
d2|d3## Warning: ggrepel: 6 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider
## increasing max.overlaps
d2 <-DimPlot(srat, group.by = "cellassign_celltype_annotation", reduction = "umap", label = TRUE, repel = TRUE) + NoLegend()
DT::datatable(table(srat$seurat_clusters, srat$cellassign_celltype_annotation)
, caption = ("table of cellassign annotation per seurat clusters"),
extensions = 'Buttons',
options = list( dom = 'Bfrtip',
buttons = c( 'csv', 'excel')))d3 <- SCpubr::do_BarPlot(sample = srat,
group.by = "cellassign_celltype_annotation",
split.by = "seurat_clusters",
position = "fill",
font.size = 10,
legend.ncol = 3) +
ggtitle("% cells")+
xlab(file)
d2|d3## Warning: ggrepel: 8 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider
## increasing max.overlaps
Even if the result of SingleR and CellAssign are not specific to a Wilms tumor dataset, it give the first impression that C12 is a cluster of endothelial cells and C11 a cluster of immune cells.
Note to the DataLab : where should I save the fetal kidney reference? In S3 like results as it is a quite big object or in the folder marker-sets?
For more information related to the reference, please go to https://www.kidneycellatlas.org/ You will find:
interactive viewer
h5ad files to download.
Please note that as Wilms tumor have been described to be closer to fetal kidney as mature kidney, we only used the fetal kidney atlas as the reference. Also check : https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aat5031
This part is imho one of the most important step that allow us to have a quick and reliable idea of the composition of the different clusters. The predicted compartment are defined into 4 categories:
As for SingleR and CellAssign, the annotation of immune cells and endothelial cells is straightforward. The stroma compartment should then contain normal and cancer stromal cells. The fetal nephron compartment contain blastema cancer cells a well as normal and cancer epithelial cells.
Further segregation of cancer versus normal cells will be achieved using a combination of markers/pathways (see above) and inferred CNV (to be done).
# access to the azimuth kidney reference
##### to be updated depending on the location of the reference file
ref_dir = file.path(module_base, "marker-sets/Azimuth_Compatible_Fetal_full/")
reference <- LoadReference(ref_dir)## Warning: Overwriting miscellanous data for model
## Warning: Adding a dimensional reduction (refUMAP) without the associated assay
## being present
## Warning: Adding a dimensional reduction (refUMAP) without the associated assay
## being present
# Load the query object for mapping
# Preprocess with SCTransform
srat <- RunAzimuth(srat, ref_dir, assay = 'RNA')## Warning: Overwriting miscellanous data for model
## Warning: Adding a dimensional reduction (refUMAP) without the associated assay
## being present
## Warning: Adding a dimensional reduction (refUMAP) without the associated assay
## being present
## Warning: Feature names cannot have underscores ('_'), replacing with dashes
## ('-')
## Warning: No layers found matching search pattern provided
## Warning: 1244 features of the features specified were not present in both the reference query assays.
## Continuing with remaining 1756 features.
## Warning: Feature names cannot have underscores ('_'), replacing with dashes
## ('-')
## Warning: Keys should be one or more alphanumeric characters followed by an
## underscore, setting key from integrated_dr_ to integrateddr_
## Warning in RunUMAP.default(object = neighborlist, reduction.model =
## reduction.model, : Number of neighbors between query and reference is not equal
## to the number of neighbors within reference
## Warning: No assay specified, setting assay as RNA by default.
## used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb)
## Ncells 19284141 1029.9 33043335 1764.8 33043335 1764.8
## Vcells 131678705 1004.7 277099676 2114.2 337582245 2575.6
DT::datatable(table(srat$seurat_clusters, srat$predicted.compartment), caption = ("table of azimuth compartment annotation per seurat clusters"), extensions = 'Buttons',
options = list( dom = 'Bfrtip',
buttons = c( 'csv', 'excel')))DT::datatable(table(srat$seurat_clusters, srat$predicted.celltype), caption = ("table of azimuth annotation per seurat clusters"),
extensions = 'Buttons',
options = list( dom = 'Bfrtip',
buttons = c( 'csv', 'excel')))d1 <- DimPlot(srat, reduction = "umap", group.by = "seurat_clusters", label = TRUE) + NoLegend()
d2 <- DimPlot(srat, reduction = "umap", dims = c(1,2), group.by = "predicted.compartment", label = TRUE, repel = TRUE) + NoLegend()
d3 <- DimPlot(srat, reduction = "umap", dims = c(1,2), group.by = "predicted.celltype", label = TRUE, repel = TRUE) + NoLegend()
d1 | d2 | d3Looking at the predicted compartment, we are satisfied that the immune, endothelium and stroma compartment are specific to a set of clusters. It is expected that the fetal__nephron compartment match to both blastema and epithelial cancer and normal kidney. It is thus OK to have it labeling two distinct set of clusters.
Looking at the predicted cell types, we observed that the set of cluster [0,1,3,4,9,10,14] is labeled as cap mesenchyme, an early developmental stage of nephron, while the set of clusters [2,7,13] is labeled with more differentiated epithelial units of the kidney. This suggest that:
f1 <- SCpubr::do_BarPlot(sample = srat,
group.by = "predicted.compartment",
split.by = "seurat_clusters",
position = "fill",
font.size = 10,
legend.ncol = 3) +
ggtitle("% cells")+
xlab(file)
f2 <- SCpubr::do_BarPlot(sample = srat,
group.by = "predicted.celltype",
split.by = "seurat_clusters",
position = "fill",
font.size = 10,
legend.ncol = 3) +
ggtitle("% cells")+
xlab(file)
f1 | f2Taking together, we can conclude:
C12 = endothelium (with high confidency)
C11 = immune cells (with high confidency)
C2. C7, C13, that form a unit in the umap reduction, are stromal cells, either cancer or normal (with high confidency)
C[0-1-3-4-9-10-14] that form a unit in the umap reduction, are label as cap mesenchyme (<=> stem) and NCAM+ must be blastema cancer cells.
C[5-6-8] that form a unit in the umap reduction, are label as epithelial cells (SingleR) and differentiated kidney epithelium subunit (Fetal kidney atlas) must be epithelial (cancer or normal)
The primary aim of this script was to assess the quality of clustering and play with clustering parameters. On this sample, we are happy with the clustering, as we could identify:
Additionally, we showed the feasibility to run label transfer using runAzimuth (part of step 3 of the proposed analysis: https://github.com/maud-p/OpenScPCA-analysis/issues/1).
We also showed the easy and robust identification of normal cells (endothelial and immune cells) that would serve as reference for the CNV inference (inferCNV, step 4 of the analysis).
[ ] We will adapt this template to be render on all the 40 Wilms tumor samples of the dataset.
[ ] We will save for each sample the rds file
[ ] We will run inferCNV for each sample to decide the malignant/normal status of some stroma and epithelial cluster, and confirm the blastema annotation.
The next step will provide us a better understanding of the entire cohort. We will then have to set up a strategy to annotate each sample. Open questions are:
[ ] should we annotate single cell
or
[] consider applying similar annotations to all cells in a cluster?
[ ] manual annotation of each cluster / each patient
or
[] automated annotation using some threshold?
# record the versions of the packages used in this analysis and other environment information
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